Word: restrained
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...triggered by inflationary fears and poor earnings reports, investors were dealt a piece good news Thursday when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan indicated that the central bank may not raise interest rates at its August meeting. Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee that a moderation in economic growth could restrain inflation on its own. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 87.30 points to close at 5,464.18 in response to Greenspan's testimony. "Greenspan is very sensitive to what has happened the last few days on Wall Street and recent economic reports that led him to believe that the economy...
...triggered by inflationary fears and poor earnings reports, investors were dealt a piece good news Thursday when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan indicated that the central bank may not raise interest rates at its August meeting. Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee that a moderation in economic growth could restrain inflation on its own. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 87.30 points to close at 5,464.18 in response to Greenspan's testimony. "Greenspan is very sensitive to what has happened the last few days on Wall Street and recent economic reports that led him to believe that the economy...
Technically, because a permanent peace treaty has never been signed, South Korea is still at war with North Korea, and whether relative peace can come about only depends on how its northern neighbor chooses to restrain itself. For the past decades, the Korean peninsula has never ceased to resemble a barrel of gunpowder which could blow up any time. Bordering upon each other are the two countries, both claiming to be the true representative of the Korean people, between whom there exists the widest and oddest gap imaginable given a homogeneous race and an identical language...
...practical argument. While the staff rightly observes that the steady delivery of mass mailings similar to Simons' could slow the exchange of information over the Harvard server and clutter student e-mailboxes, it undermines its own logic by conceding that filters could be put in place to restrain mass mailings. Claims that the "legitimate" user would somehow be punished by such a program are specious at best...
This lost efficiency directly translates into lower productivity and hence lower living standards. Similarly, by denying U.S. companies access to markets, trade barriers restrain competition between U.S. companies and their foreign rivals. This restraint of competition stifles innovation and also contributes to lower levels of productivity and standards of living. Clearly, foreign trade barriers, such as those employed by Japan, directly contribute to a lower U.S. standard of living and can no longer be tolerated...